Emergency care of children and young people
By: edited by Karen Cleaver & Janet Webb.
Contributors: Cleaver, Karen, 1959-; Webb, Janet, 1961-
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781405101103
Subjects: Pediatric emergency services -- Great Britain; Hospitals -- Emergency services -- Great Britain; Pediatric nursing -- Great Britain; Emergencies -- nursing -- Great Britain; Adolescent -- Great Britain; Child -- Great Britain; Emergency Service, Hospital -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene: the context of emergency care for children and young people / Karen Cleaver & Janet Webb; title: Principles of emergency care for children and young people / Lesley Wayne, Louise Bunn & Janet Webb; title: Legal and ethical emergency care of children / Pat Rose; title: Safeguarding and protecting children: the roles and responsibilities of the emergency care practitioner / Janet Webb; title: Meeting the specific needs of young people attending the emergency department / Jean Shepherd & Olive McKeown; title: Treatment and management of minor injuries / Lesley Wayne & Louise Bunn; title: The principles of assessment and management of pain in children and young people attending an emergency department / Ann Rich; title: Emergency care of the critically ill or seriously injured child / Karen Chandler, Gill McEwing & Janet Kelsey; title: Paediatric resuscitation / Rebecca Hoskins & Karen Chandler; title: Emergency care and management of children with acute respiratory illness / Janet Kelsey & Gill McEwing; title: The assessment and management of paediatric fever in the emergency setting / Karen Cleaver; title: Emergency care of children with sickle cell disease: one family's experience / Priscilla Dike; title: Emergency care of children and young people with diabetic ketoacidosis / Camille Roddam.